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What If . . .
Students today can’t prepare bark to calculate their problems.
They depend on their slates which are more expensive. What
will they do when the slate is dropped and it breaks? They will
be unable to write!
Teacher’s Conference
1703
Students today depend on paper too much. They don’t know how
to write on a slate without getting chalk dust all over
themselves. They can’t clean a slate properly. What will they do
when they run out of paper?
Principal’s Association
1815
Students today depend too much upon ink. They don’t know
how to use a pen knife to sharpen a pencil. Pen and ink will never replace the pencil.
National Association of Teachers
1907
Students today depend upon store bought ink. They don’t know how to make their own. When they run out of ink they
will be unable to write words or ciphers until their next trip to the
settlement. This is a sad commentary on modern
education.
The Rural American Teacher
1928
Students today depend on these expensive fountain pens. They
can no longer write with a straight pen and nib. We parents must not allow them to wallow in such luxury to the detriment of learning how to cope in the real business world which is not so
extravagant.
PTA Gazette
1941
Ballpoint pens will be the ruin of education in our country.
Students use these devices and then throw them away. The
American values of thrift and frugality are being discarded.
Business and banks will never allow such expensive luxuries.
Federal Teachers
1950
You can’t use those calculators on the test. If I let you do that, you wouldn’t ever learn how to use the tables in the back of the
book and use interpolation to figure out your trig ratios.
High School Math Teacher
1980
We can’t let them use calculators in middle school. If we do, they’ll forget how to do
long division or how to multiply three digit numbers by three
digit numbers. What will they do when they don’t have access to
a calculator?
Middle School Math Teacher
1989
Why are you writing a grant for a classroom set of graphing calculators? We’ll never be
allowed to use them and – even if we can – that’s only one class, and parents in other classes will
never buy them for their students.
High School Math Teacher
1993
Why would you ever want the Internet for student use? It’s just
the latest fad – have them use the library.
District Employee
1995
You don’t need a web page [for AHS]. Who’s ever going to look
at it?
District Employee
1995
Teachers will never use email.
Teacher on a District Committee
1996
Why do you want network drops at every teacher’s desk? You’re
not thinking of getting a computer for all of them are
you?
Building Administrator
1999
What can you do with an LCD Projector that you can’t do with
an overhead projector?
Member of School Accountability Committee
1999
Why are we talking about students having laptops in high
school? I don’t think most parents will even give their kids their old computer, much less
buy them a new one.
Member of Laptop Committee
2000
Why would I want to put my grades on the web? Who’s going
to look at them?
Teacher
2001
I don’t think we’ll have a wireless network at AHS anytime soon.
Me
Spring 2005
Turn off and put away all Cell Phones, iPods, and Electronic
Devices during class!
Signs around AHS
Fall 2006
What If . . .
We’d listened?